R.I.P. Scout26
Politicians and bureaucrats are considered productive if they swarm the populace like a plague of locust, devouring all substance in their path and leaving a swath of destruction like a firestorm. The technical term is "bipartisanship".
The way I understand it as long as the stuff is turned off they shouldn't be effected.
Do you plan to have an extra computer/sensors for your car in a safe place?
Holy hell. It's like giving a loaded gun to a chimpanzee...
the last thing you need is rabies. You're already angry enough as it is.OTOH, there wouldn't be a tweeker left in Georgia...
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! AND THROW SOME STEAK ON THE GRILL!
It's cheaper and faster to jack a horse.
Do you know how much money an extra computer and enough sensors to provide minimal functioning would be for the average car? Not less than 1K, likely. Not to mention the knowledge you'd need to replace them and the time. It's cheaper and faster to jack a horse.
I shoot back
Are there a lot of electronics in modern motorcycles which would get fried?
How would a motorcycle work as a post-apocalypse vehicle? Are there a lot of electronics in modern motorcycles which would get fried? How far back do you have to go to get a "pre-electronics" motorcycle?
First: Another brief note about severe solar storms (and similar natural events), and then I'll get back to nuclear EMP. Solar storms would primarily affect the power grid, and are not likely to harm things like computers. Also, solar storms would only disrupt communications temporarily, and would not be likely to cause direct harm to communications equipment (except for satellites). An extremely large solar storm, though, would induce geomagnetic currents that could destroy a substantial fraction of the very largest transformers on the power grid (possibly over much of the world). If this happened, electric power loss due to a large solar storm would be out for a period of years and possibly decades. Unlike nuclear EMP, such a solar storm is an eventual inevitability.The last solar storm that could have caused this level of damage happened in 1859, before the power grid was in place (although in 1921 a large solar storm, of briefer duration than the 1859 event, occurred which affected only a small area of the planet). The power grid has only been in place for a tiny fraction of one percent of human history, and a really large solar storm (of the size and duration of the 1859 event) has not happened in that time. There is a general assumption that any solar event that is similar to, or larger than, the 1859 solar superstorm will simply never happen again, although there is no justification for such an assumption -- in fact, we know that this assumption is false. There is a good possibility that such a solar storm will happen in this century. If it happens in the current situation without spares for our largest transformers, a large part of the worldwide power grid (including 70 to 100 percent of the United States power grid) will be down for years.
http://www.space.com/13517-giant-sunspot-unleashes-massive-solar-flare.htmlhttp://www.space.com/12584-worst-solar-storms-sun-flares-history.html
Not my understanding at all.Been described to me as a spontaneous spark or pulse that will permanently lock micro-solenoid gates in microcontrollers in either open or closed position. Doesn't matter if current is running through the device at the time or not. The only protection to EMP is to have circuits that are so old/heavy that they require more amperage than can be delivered via EMP to cause them to trigger and stay locked in place.But, I'm not a physics authority and I didn't sleep in a Holliday Inn Express last night, so I would gladly defer to Physics or Birdman here if they'd like to 'splayn.
